Several days ago, President Trump issued an executive order [1] barring immigrants and nonimmigrant visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States -significantly impacting many students and scholars. This follows on the heels of two other executive orders focused on immigration enforcement [2] and border security that he signed last week, which froze refugee admis...

Intuitionistic dependence logic was introduced by Abramsky and Väänänen [AV09] as a variant of dependence logic under a general construction of Hodges’ (trump) team semantics. It was proven that there is a translation from intuitionistic dependence logic sentences into second order logic sentences. In this paper, we prove that the other direction is also true, therefore intuitionistic dependenc...

Abstract Christian nationalist ideology was among the strongest predictors of Americans voting for Trump in 2016 and remained a strong predictor intent to vote him prior 2020 election. This study uses national data examine whether nationalism could potentially convert previously-unconverted supporting or, conversely, prevent apostatizing from Trump. Among who did not 2016, increased likelihood ...

The concept of medical futility has come to be seen in some quarters as a value-neutral trump card when dealing with issues of power and conflicting values in medicine. I argue that this concept is potentially useful, but only in a social context that provides a normative framework for its use. This social context needs to include a broad consensus about the purpose of medicine and the nature o...

Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll: Two-thirds of Americans say fix Obamacare, don't repeal it. [1] More than half say, get on to other priorities. Has Congress ever changed the Affordable Care Act? Yes, it has and with bipartisan support. A short history. [2] President Trump ratcheted up his pressure on lawmakers to pass a healthcare plan with a threat to end key Obamacare payments and cancel some of ...

The aim of this paper is to expand upon the conclusions reached by Orr and Genesen in their 1997 article (published in this journal), Requests for 'inappropriate' treatment based on religious beliefs. Assuming, with Orr and Genesen, that claims made in the name of religion are not absolute, I will propose some principles for determining when claims based on religious beliefs or cultural sensibi...